30 days
June 20th, 2005 -- Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I’ve been out-of-touch lately. Nothing much to report except 1) had a cool house party with lots of fun people and 2) thought I had appendicitis but really just turned out to be a fluke-stomach thingy.
Last night I saw an interesting show called 30 days on cable. The guys and I had come back from Cha Cha Cha and we were busily channel surfing while still enjoying post-Sangria buzz. I recognized the guy from Supersize Me who is the host of this new show. It seems that the basic premise is that he “explores what life changing experiences are possible in 30 days.”
In the show I saw, him and his fiancee try to live off of minimum wage for 30 days. In the end, it seemed like it was all pretty hopeless. It really put things in perspective and it made me think of my parents when they first came to america back in the 70s. If I were ever that destitute, and lived in a situation like that I think I would turn to a life of crime.
In light of the rejection of the EU constitution by the french, it made me wonder how the people at the bottom rung of french society fare in a socialist system.